Chapters Seven - Nine Summary

Chapter Seven. Several days later, the white ladies tell the villagers to come to Chawa's house in the mornings to get medicine. They also start to visit each of the village's 18 houses each evening. They come by at mealtime, and when people are polite and invite them to eat, they say they are not hungry and continue on. This is very bad manners since the Isabo do not visit others at mealtime unless they are hungry. A villager named Juanita decides to teach the two white ladies a lesson. She learns that Margarita has traded some rifle cartridges to one of the village men, Nimeran, in return for a portion of the meat he brings back from hunting. Nimeran soon returns and gives the white ladies a deer leg, and as soon as they sit down to...